Object retainer



R. J. GRUENBERG.

OBJECT RETAINER.

APPLICATION HLED AUG-27. 1920.

1,408, 1 91. 'Patentd Feb. 28, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BAOUL J. GRUENBERG, 01E SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PARAFFINE COMPANIES. INC., A CORPORATION GF DELAWARE.

OBJECT RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

Application filed August 27. 1920. Serial No. 408,354.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAOUL J. GRUENBERG, citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented a new and useful Object Retainer, of which the following is a specification, in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to a holder for securing hats, or other objects in a given position in a box or other shipping receptacle and it is especially adapted for use with folding boxes to prevent the objects from crushing down in one end of the box.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that in shipping hats, neckwear, or other fragile objects that it is very necessary to hold the object in the center of the package carrying it thereby preventing it from being injured by sudden olts or jars and also pre venting crushing in the case of hats or other objects of that character which would be likely to produce creases in the object.

Another object of the invention is to produce an object holder which has its securing tabs so creased as to hold the main'body of the holder at any desired elevation above the bottom of the box when the objects do not themselves have a portion to hold the retainer up.

Other objects of the invention will appear as the description proceeds.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which the same reference numeral is applied to the same portion throughout, but I am aware that there may be modifications thereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder in place in a box, showing a hat held thereby, a part of the box being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of a box showing the holder in place therein, and

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the holder.

Fig. 4: is a view illustrating the manner of lifting up the holder from the bottom of the box when an object is to be held thereby, which does not have a portion extending under the holder.

The numeral 1 indicates the box body which has closing flaps 2 to 5 at its ends, one

of said flaps having a tongue 6 to pass into one of the other flaps to hold all the flaps closed.

The holder is indicated at 7 and it has a central opening provided with a series of tabs 8 for contacting with the objects to be held in place.

At the ends of the holder 7 it has tabs 9 and 10 which are of any desired extent, said tabs being suitably creased as indicated at 11 to 13 inclusive, which tabs may be wholly folded in between the box end flaps to secure the holder ina fixed position in the box, or if the objects themselves do not have some portion passing-under the holder it may be raised above the box bottom by folding the tabs as illustrated in Fig. 4:. It will be clear that where the holder is supplied in a form to be used for several purposes that the num ber of creases in the end tabs may be anything from one to four or five as may be desired. holder are placed between the end flaps of the box and thereby the holder is secured in a fixed position in the box.

What I claim is as follows, but various modifications may be made in the construction shown in the drawings and above particularly described form, within the purview of my invention.

1. An object holder for boxes comprising the combination with a box having folding flaps, of a sheet of material having an opening therethrough t receive the object and flaps at the end of said sheet of material for being folded between the flaps of the box to hold the object in a given position with respect of the box.

2. An object holder comprising the combination with a box having folding flaps, of a sheet of material having an opening-therethrough, said sheet also having flaps extending into said opening and having other flaps at its ends adapted to be folded between the end flaps of the box for holding said sheet and objects held thereby in a given position in the box.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of August A. D. 1920.

RAOUL J. GRUENBERG.

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